AP World History Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What were their society, technology, and culture? - Answer - Humans used fire in new ways: to aid hunting and foraging, to protect against predators and to adapt to cold environments. - Humans developed a wider range of tools specially adapted to different environments from tropics to tundra. Where did humans first appear on Earth? - Answer Out of Africa Describe earliest humans' technology & tools - Answer - Religion was most likely animistic. - Economic structures focused on s...

Ca 500 CE-1200s - Answer Ghana Empire (West Africa Islamic Empire) Ca 500 CE-1300 - Answer Middle Ages, Medieval, Feudal Europe 600-1450 - Answer Annam (North Vietnam, tribute state of Tang, Song, and Mongols, culturally, politically, and economically tied to China, Confucianism) 600-1450 - Answer Champa (South Vietnam, tribute state of Tang, Song, and Mongols gave China Champa rice, heavily influenced by India and Malay, part of Indian Ocean trade) 618-907 - Answer Ta...

Nationalism - Answer Devotion people feel towards their country/society; Became a cause for conflict in Europe at the turn of the 20th Century as Europeans competed for territories and power. Imperialism - Answer A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically. Muhammad - Answer Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam. Unified the Bedhouin tribes. Neolithic Revolution - Answer The change from hunting-gathering to ...

Explain the effects of new agricultural innovations on European society () - Answer Food surplus led to population increase Better job specialization Bigger cities What was the role of the Catholic Church in Medieval Europe () - Answer Pope was politically important and religiously important Dominant force in all areas Why did Feudalism arise in Europe during this period () - Answer Fall of Rome; lack of knowledge; need for food and protection; need for labor Social effec...

State-building - Answer The processes of creating and expanding states or empires typically to refer to their government, economic, and cultural practices. East Asia - Answer A region of Asia that includes China, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Japan South Asia - Answer A region that includes modern day India & Pakistan Southeast Asia - Answer A region that includes Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc. Afro-Eurasia - Answer The vast region made up of A...

centralized states from - Answer Islamic caliphates; Song/Ming Dynasty; Delhi Sultanate; Mali and Songhai Empires examples of religious expansion acting as a unifying social force in state-building from - Answer Islam as a system of shared beliefs and common language throughout Dar al-Islam; Confucianism in the Chinese civil service examinations to provide organization and defined societal roles; Christianity providing cultural organization to decentralized Europe during the Middle Ag...

Qing Dynasty of China - Answer The last imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Ming Dynasty and succeeded by the People's Republic. Formed the territorial base for the modern Chinese state. Founded in 1644 by the Manchus and ruled China for more than 260 years, until 1912. Expanded China's borders to include Taiwan, Tibet, Chinese Central Asia, and Mongolia. Manchus - Answer Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644, which was the las...

Mercantilism - Answer An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by strictly regulating the economy to obtain large amounts of gold and silver by selling more goods than they bought and utilizing colonies Prince Henry the Navigator - Answer () Prince of Portugal who established an observatory and school of navigation at Sagres and directed voyages that spurred the growth of Portugal's colonial empire. Triangular Trade - Answer Trading System ...

Imperial Bureaucracy - Answer vast organization in which appointed officials carried out empire's policies Since Qin Expanded in Song Civil Service Exam - Answer In Imperial China starting in the Han dynasty, it was an exam based on Confucian teachings that were used to select people for various government service jobs in the nationwide administrative bureaucracy. In the Song, it was expanded to the lower class and provided an opportunity to get good jobs in bureaucracy. Meritocra...

Abbasid Caliphate - Answer Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle, al-Abbas, the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad (founded 762) from 750 to 1258. (p. 234) absolution - Answer The theory popular in France and other early modern European monarchies that royal power should be free of constitutional checks. (p. 452) Acheh Sultanate - Answer Muslim kingdom in northern Sumatra. Main center of Islamic expansion in So...